Politics

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Argentina's black players: A WaPo article on race revisited

  

  By Mordechai Taji - A Washington Post article last week resurfaced the issue that Argentina's national football team featured no black players, as opposed to Germany, Spain, France, and other European squads.

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 08:46 UTC

  Falklands Government extends Borders & Southern production licenses

  

  Oil and gas company Borders & Southern Petroleum with interests in the Falkland Islands announced this week it had secured the extension of its Production Licenses PL018, PL019, PL020, including the Darwin Discovery Area, according to reports in London's financial media.

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 08:22 UTC

  European Parliament VP arrested on suspicions of belonging to a criminal organization

  

  Police in Belgium have arrested Greek Socialist MEP Eva Kaili, one of 14 European Parliament vice-presidents, in connection with an investigation into a criminal organization, corruption, and money laundering that involves an unidentified Gulf state, but apparently, Qatar reported the Interpol office.

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 08:11 UTC

  Argentina to reopen embassy in Bangladesh

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero announced his country would be reopening its embassy in Bangladesh after 40 years, a decision most likely boosted by the Asian country's support of Lionel Messi's team playing the football World Cup in Qatar.

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 07:59 UTC

  Venezuela's minimum monthly wage back below US$ 10

  

  Venezuela's Bolivar fell 17% against the US dollar from less than a week ago, leaving minimum monthly pensions and wages at around US$ 9.20, it was reported in Caracas Friday. Set at 130 bolivars in March, incomes went down 69% this year.

• Sunday, December 11th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  US: Az Senator going independent means goodbye to Dems' 51-49 edge

  

  Just when US President Joseph Biden had clinched a 51-49 Upper House advantage, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema Friday announced she was leaving the Democratic Party and going “independent.”

• Saturday, December 10th 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Brigadier Dan Duff, next head of Falklands based BFSAI

  

  The new Commander of the British Forces South Atlantic Islands (CBFSAI), Brigadier Dan Duff, is to be arriving in the Falklands in Spring 2023, replacing the current CBF, Commodore Jonathan Lett, who has been the CBF since November 2020.

• Saturday, December 10th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Brazilian President makes first public appearance in almost two months

  

  In one of his first appearances after losing the Oct. 30 runoff, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Friday praised the Armed Forces Friday and called on his fellow countrypeople to stand together against President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he never congratulated on his win.

• Saturday, December 10th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Uruguayan paramilitary murderers sentenced to over 20 years in jail

  

  Two members of Uruguay's infamous Death Squad have been handed down heavy prison sentences for their involvement in two murder cases, it was announced Friday in Montevideo.

• Saturday, December 10th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  First work stoppage for the New York Times in forty years

  

  More than 1,000 employees at The New York Times, one of the leading US dailies, began a 24-hour walkout on Thursday. In what is the first work stoppage in over 40 years at the newspaper, The NewsGuild labor union cited the organization's “failure to bargain in good faith,” after setting a deadline for a contract for midnight December 8.